RedHat uses PAM (Pluggable-Authentication-Module) for user
authentication. There's an LDAP aware PAM module called pam_ldap at
http://www.padl.com/software.html
Mike
Calvin Lam wrote:
>
> Can I use ldap server for user authentication instead of using shadow
> password or password file in RedHat 6.0? If yes, how can I do so using
> OpenLdap server? Thanks.